Safety head-gear



UNITED: STATES L. STANLEY BATTER, or PORTLAND,-OREGO1\T.

SAFETY I-IEAD-GEAlif Specification of letters Patent. Patented Sept, 27,1921.

Application filed March 29, 1921. Serial No. 456,544.

To all whom 2'25 may concern:

Be it known that I, L. STANLEY BAIER,

a citizen of the United States, residing at State of Oregon, haveinvented a new and useful Safety Head-Gear, of which the following is aspecification.

My invention relates to improvements in safety head gears in which acrown of spring steel wire is provided with an aluminum vizor and an aircushion in the sweat band. r

The objects of my invention duce a head gear which In externalappearance is indistinguishable from an ordinary cap; V Can be verycheaply manufactured;

Is comfortable to wear;

Aliords goodventilation; and a Protects the heads of ball playersagainst injuries from base balls, as also the heads of workmen wheredanger from falling bolts,

nuts, rivets, stones, and such like objects prevails.

I attain-these objects with the mechanism illustrated in theaccompanying drawing in which- Figure I is a plan view of the entirehead gear without the cloth covering.

Fig. II is a side elevation of Fig. I.

Fig. III is a section through Fig. I along the line AA with the clothcovering in place.

Similar numerals'refer to similar parts throughout the several views.

The crown of my head gear comprises plurality of meridional pieces ofsprlngsteelp wire 1 attached to a polar ring 2 andalso to an equatorialring 3. Two or more latitudinal rings 4 of spring steel wire arethereupon distributed over the resultant semispherical shell. Thecrossing points of the meridional and latitudinal wires are spotweldedto form a rigid connection in regards to each other, yet elastic whenconsidering the shell as a whole. To the inner circumference of theequatorial ring is riveted, soldered or otherwise attached in anydesired manner an aluminum band 5. Affixed to the latter in any suitablemanner is a leather sweat band 6; and held in the fold of'the leathersweat band is a rubber cushion 7, oblong in cross section, and filledpermanently with compressed air. A vizor 8, of conventional are to pro-7 shape and outlines is fitted to the rim at the .outside of the headgear and spotwelded -where convenience permits. Portland, in the countyof Multnomah and J The entire head gear may thereupon be covered withfabric 9 of any desiredcolor or material. The place where the fabric issewed to" the sweat band is indicated by a numeral 10', in Fig. III.

This device furnishes a very-light head gear which possesses sufficientelasticityto repel small objects, andto regain its shape after a slightdistortion Having thus described my invention it will be seen that myobjects have been accomplished, and, though I have shown the preferredform of construction I reserve to myself the right to make minorchanges,

provided I do not violate the Spirit and principle of my invention-Especially do I wish to emphasize that the meridional strands, insteadof terminating at the polar ring, may cross the pole from one side to"the other in a semi-circle without being considered a transgression ofthe scope of this invention.

I claim. v 1.- In a safety head gear, the combination of a crowncomprising a plurality of meridspring steel wire, spotwelded at thecross mg points, ametal vizor spotwelded tothe rim of the crown, and anair cushion at the .rim within the crown.

2. In a safety head gear, the combination of a semi-sphericalcrowncomprising meridional and equatorial spring steel wires spotwelded attheir intersection, an aluminum of a crown formed of intersecting springi steel wires an aluminum'vizor rigidly at tached to the rim of thecrown onthe outside thereof, a rubber air tube attached to ional strandsand latitudinal rings both of the rim within the crown, and textilefabric covering the crown and the vizor. Signed by me at/Portland,Oregon, this 22nd dayof March, 1921.

L. STANLEY BAIER.

